Power-up Your Front-End Development with Grunt
Power-up Your Front-End Development with Grunt
A Quick Start Guide to Grunt
About the Book
As front-end developers, we find in our day-to-day tasks and flows that we could (and should!) automate to save time and avoid bugs and errors: compiling Sass stylesheets, running tests, pre-compiling Handlebar templates, linting our code, etc.
This books shows how to use Grunt, a JavaScript task runner, to automate some of the most common tasks we find in front-end projects. The approach of this book is eminently practical and includes plenty of source code.
This is a guide that serves both as an introduction to Grunt, as well as a collection of recipes on how to automatise some of the most common tasks, among them:
- Lint JavaScript code
- Compile Sass stylesheets
- Run unit tests in the console and in a browser
- Launch a local web server
- Listen for file changes and re-compile assets (like Sass stylesheets)
- Generate a tarball with a release of your app
- Etc.
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About the Author
Table of Contents
- About
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Hello Grunt
- Install Node and Grunt
- Start the project
- Recap
- The code so far
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Add a linter
- Install the JSHint plugin for Grunt
- Lint a single file
- Lint the whole project
- Customise the linter’s rules
- Recap
- The code so far
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Integrate Sass
- Install the Sass plugin
- About the directory structure
- Setup the task
- Add another target to the task
- Recap
- The code so far
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Start a local server
- Install the connect plugin for Grunt
- A basic web server
- Serving multiple directories
- Recap
- The code so far
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Run tests
- Install the Jasmine plugin for Grunt
- Run the tests in the console
- Run the tests in a browser
- Recap
- The code so far
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Housekeeping
- Listen for changes
- Open a browser automatically
- Improve your workflow with custom tasks
- Clean temporary files
- Recap
- The code so far
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Generate a tarball
- Generate a release
- Compress files
- Name the tarball with the version number
- Clean up
- Recap
- The code so far
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